Basil Zamo

Basil Zamo (died 20 October 2015) was the commander of the First Coastal Division of the Free Syrian Army during the Syrian Civil War.

Biography
Basil Zamo was a Sunni Muslim, and he served in the Syrian Arab Army under President Bashar al-Assad as a captain before the Syrian Civil War broke out. When Syria fell into civil war, Basil joined the Free Syrian Army and became one of its top, non-Islamist commanders. His First Coastal Division was supplied with United States weaponry during the conflict, and he had US backing due to the moderate stance of his group. On 20 October 2015 he was killed in a Russian Air Force bombing at Jabal al-Akrad in Latakia Province, with the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reporting that 45 people were killed in the airstrike and over 100 more wounded.